Well, here it is, four songs from the depths of Hell, ready to take your black heart and melt your face off. The title song is for me one of the best on this release, kinda reminding me of Japanese Balzac in vocal lines and melodies. Production is gritty, diy and murky, kinda brings that vibe of darkness in the music, but also melancholy and melody. The Dark Passenger is a song with more of a metal vibe, I can even hear some goth influences in the midst of guitar work through the song structure. I must also commend clever use of samples on this record, I love that if they are done and used with style. Burking Method is for me best song besides above mentioned title song, having that awesome melancholic and dark main guitar melody combined with harsh sung vocals, killer song! Blood Spell brings back the horrorpunk singing along with many ooo parts and reminds me why I love this genre of music so much! So, go write to the guys and support them, you will not be sorry when you hear the e.p.
Blood of the Vampire is set into the end of the nineteenth century and tells the story about the wrongly accused doctor who ends in the remote prison where mad warden conducts deathly experiments on inmates, with help of his disfigured sidekick. This one was definitely ahead of its time. Why? Because this one is a brutal prison thriller drama about wrongly accused character with little or no hope for saving himself from the situation he is in. Second, it is horror, classic with mad doctor, experiments and blood letting and blood being the life. Donald Wolfit is fantastic in the role of Callistratus, mad warden/scientist, diabolic and anemic, whose presence steals the charisma from all other actors, although Barbara Shelley as Madeleine and Victor Maddern as disfigured Carl are also fabulous and charming, as only those old school horror movies can provide. Characters that are unforgettable, larger than life and ones that we always love to get back to. I am really happy that I discovered this little jewel and watched it. If you love old school horror, prison break movies, drama and macabre, this one is a keeper.
I must admit that I had absolutely no expectations from this one. I thought to myself, this is another teen horror slasher or something, just one in endless row of bad horror, like it is delivered in recent couple of years. But, fortunately I was wrong. The story evolves around group of friends who drive with their SUV somewhere in shithole back country and learn that some witches were hung there in the woods. Like it usually is in our beloved genre, instead of moving on, they decide to go there. And what happens? Their SUV breaks down. They are stranded in snow and all the psychological issues start to come out as something lurks for them in the darkness and cold. Is it witches or only their psyche? Well, this one had some spooky moments for me. There are almost no gore and bloody scenes, just a little, so you gore fiends skip this one. This is pure psychological mental break horror and I loved it. The ending could be better and it left some questions in the movie unanswered but I guess that is the way it must be in movies such as this one. The acting is not well, but decent and Jordan Barker directed this one okay and I have nothing against this movie. Not special, but decent.
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